Buckster
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As one with a basic understanding, surely you understand that f stop is a fraction, thus the / in there. Think 1/2 vs 1/8 - which one is bigger? NOW do the math. Keith is correct.I knew what he meant, I went and looked it up. Being new doesn't mean I am ignorant...
Sorry, I didn't intend to sound patronising or accuse you of ignorance :blushing:
I just thought when you said "New to Photography", you meant really new!
The only trouble with that is f/2 is a bigger number than f/8 is.
Lens aperture number is decidedly logical, within the context of having a solid basic understanding of math and numbers.
No. F/2 is a bigger aperture than F/8 is. I misunderstood quite how new to photography the OP was and thought I'd make the concept easier to understand for them. It now turns out that he already knew the concept of smaller numbers meaning bigger aperture.
I'm fairly sure I have a basic understanding of the numbers 1 to 8. And have a basic enough knowledge of maths to know that 8 is more than 2.
Thanks for the sarcasm lesson!